Kaiser Wilhelm and the Marquess of Nelson and George. To be honest, the solution negotiated by Yilu is still possible, because Britain's shipbuilding capacity is not weak, after all, her colonies are many and far away, and she also has the largest commercial fleet in the world, and has long controlled the majority of the world's shipping. Therefore, Britain can now complete the entire construction of a Victory-class battleship from laying the first keel to outfitting in one year, and it can also ensure that there will be no major problems in sea trials.

This skill has reached its peak, not to mention the current new Ming Dynasty, change to another timeline of the world factory to do, a full row of more than 20,000 tons of large ships, it is unlikely to be completed within a year.

In addition, British shipbuilding steel and armor steel are not much worse than Daming. Although Britain's steel production is only about 15% of the Ming Dynasty, because the scale of British shipbuilding is very large, their steel mills mainly serve shipbuilding, and put a lot of energy into various marine steels, so the technical level is not below the Ming Dynasty's counterparts.

In terms of armor steel, the research direction of the two sides is actually the same, that is, to try their best to increase the hardness of armor steel - as long as the armor steel is harder than the warhead of armor-piercing shells, it can theoretically be "invulnerable". The path to increase hardness is nothing more than adjusting the formula of alloy steel and improving the smelting process, to put it bluntly, it is trial and error and fighting resources. The former requires a sufficient team of professionals, and various methods are constantly being tried. The latter requires a large enough territory and sufficient resources of non-ferrous metals and rare metals. And the two sides are obviously evenly matched in both aspects. Although the number of engineers and skilled workers in the UK is far less than that of the Ming Dynasty, it can still ensure demand in a few key areas, and both the Ming and the United Kingdom are large enough.

Therefore, both sides have now mastered the smelting technology of high-strength armor steel similar to "Harvey armor steel", and have also begun to study more complex deep decreasing hardening technology. With the capabilities of the two countries in this regard, a breakthrough is only a matter of time.

As for artillery technology, the gap between the two sides is not large, but the Ming Dynasty has a better machinery industry, so they can produce better naval gun servo systems, and they can rapid-fire large-caliber artillery faster.

But the technical ceiling of large-caliber artillery is obvious, and it does not make much sense to go up 400 mm, and the rapid-fire cannon of the 300 mm class has already passed on both sides. The development of rapid-fire guns of a larger caliber will not be much worse on both sides. After all, Britain could also overcome the shortcomings of the mechanical industry by making the servo system of artillery a little larger.

The only thing that left the British at bay was the gap in oil-fired boilers and steam turbines...... Therefore, the configuration of giant ships, cannons, and slow speed cannot be said to be the most suitable for Great Britain, at least the best choice in the current situation, at least allowing Great Britain to continue to resist.

To complete the adjustment of the direction of the development of the capital ships, the British had to try their best to buy time for themselves with other people's lives! And the Ming side, although they didn't know the plans of the British, they also knew that they couldn't give the British too much time...... It is necessary to take advantage of the fact that the battleships in their hands are still "very fragrant" to expand their superiority on the battlefield as much as possible.

And the obstacle that prevented them from achieving this goal was the fortress of Sommasek, because in the whole of the Malay Peninsula, only the fortress of Fortress was still in the hands of the British.

......

"Brother Shenshan, how's the situation?"

At the wharf of the Malacca Military Port, Zhuge Weidao, who had just come down from the Shuzhong Wang, saw Major General Zheng Guoxian, chief of staff of the Nanyang Army, who came to greet him, and hurriedly inquired about the progress of the battle.

It is now the first month of the 11th year of Taiping. Due to the existence of the Johor Strait defense line, the battle of the Malay Peninsula has come to a standstill since a few days before the New Year - don't look at the Johor Strait is only a kilometer wide, but it is not easy to pass, and a forced crossing campaign must be launched! This required the preparation of a large number of ships and the mobilization of a sufficient number of artillery and troops.

It is impossible to accomplish the task by relying only on two lightly armed Japanese divisions and one equally lightly armed Japanese independent brigade, so the follow-up heavy troops must be moved forward. The heavy armament consisted of artillery belonging to 2 Japanese divisions and 1 Japanese independent brigade, and an infantry corps of the Ming Army, known as the 10th Army of the Ming Army - this army was stationed in Pattani and Songkhla for decades, with a large number of mules and horses adapted to the tropical climate, and was also armed with heavy howitzers of 210 mm caliber that could bombard British strongholds!

As for 120 mm and 155 mm howitzers, that's more. The three divisions to which they belong have a "reinforced artillery regiment" with a large establishment, and there is also a heavy artillery brigade directly under the army!

If you look at the establishment table of this army, you will know that this is an army prepared for the First World War! With this firepower, it's no problem to pull it to fight the Battle of Verdun,...... However, this time, the main force that could fight Verdun did not get any chance to make meritorious contributions. Because as soon as the Japanese devils were interspersed, the Anglo-Indian army collapsed all the way! The planes are almost unable to catch up, not to mention these "World War I infantry" who are slowly marching with heavy howitzers?

However, the 10th Army of the Ming Army, which had finally "caught up" with the enemy in the Johor Strait, was not busy launching an offensive, because Lieutenant General Mu Zhongjun, who was also the commander of the 10th Army, decided to adopt the method of "attacking the city and attacking the heart first" after inspecting the frontline terrain and studying the "Art of War of King Wuzhong...... They also wanted to open a gap in the captured Indian soldiers and carry out the attack. He also gave Cheng Guoxian the credit for this seemingly easy achievement, and asked him to take the army's intelligence elite to the prisoner of war camp in Malacca.

At the same time, Malacca City was also the logistics and transit center of the Tomorrow-Japan coalition forces, and Zhuge Weidao's First Voyage War was moving back and forth between Penang and Malacca during this time, serving as a guard and covering transportation and other tasks.

This time, for the first time, he disembarked and landed on the territory of the Malay Peninsula - this will soon be the strait province of Daming!

Now that more than 99% of the Malay Peninsula has been liberated, there is only one island left...... Experience from another timeline tells Zhuge that the island is easy to take. But Zheng Guoxian's answer surprised Zhuge Weidao.

"No! None of the Indians would surrender. ”

Zhuge Weidao was surprised and asked, "What?" Won't surrender? Why did they all go to prisoner of war camps if they refused to surrender? ”

"Daozi, that's not called surrender," Zheng Guoxian said with a smile and tears, "That's called non-violent non-resistance!" ”

"Non-violent non-resistance?" Zhuge was stunned and stunned, "What are these words?" Says who? ”

"Of course it was the Indians," said Cheng Guoxian, "at first it was said by an Indian ensign who was captured by the Japanese, and then, for some reason, all the captives said so." ”

Zhuge Weidao stopped, looked at Zheng Guoxian and asked, "Who did you arrest?" Did he have the surname Gandhi? ”

Zheng Guoxian was stunned for a moment, "It seems that the surname is Gan." But that's what they Indians are in, and they just want to lie still! ”

"Then they're not afraid that we'll kill them all?" Zhuge glared at Dao.

"Killed?" Zheng Guoxian looked at Zhuge Weidao in surprise, "Daozi, where did those Indians offend you?" Why are you so angry? Our Great Tomorrow Dynasty is to subdue people with virtue, how can we kill prisoners? ”

Zhuge Weidao thought about it, the current Ming Empire is very reasonable, the captured prisoners can't be killed, can't be beaten, and have to eat and drink well...... The British Royal Navy prisoners who were captured before are now living comfortably on the island.

Those Indian Ah San are used to lying down, and it is normal that they don't want the Ming Empire to be liberated.

But...... Zhuge thought about it for the Tao, and there was already a way.

"Shenshan," he said to Zheng Guoxian with a smile, "I have a way to do this, and our Zhuge family is the best at attacking hearts!" ”